Today India has a bumpy diplomatic policy towards the Muslim world trying to appease both the Shia and Sunni worlds with one big sweet tongue at the same time with none liking it too much. Today, time has come for us to take a stand like other countries with backbone like China, US and chose either of the two worlds for our own benefits, and not because of the haphazard rutted dodgy and biased ideology of our Sunni led political leadership.

The liberal Shia world would be the best and the
safest bet India can ever make as everyone knows that the Sunni world
is deadly against kaffir India with Pakistan in the forefront. Saudi
Arabia and all its allies including America will always choose
Pakistan over India, no matter what is at stake. This is the reason
why we should have a foreign policy of our own and not of someone
else’s making or liking and its high time we took a definite stand
in the regions politics solely keeping our views and interests on the
forefront.

In
Focus

With Iran our age-old Aryan ally at our side, we can
gain a foothold into the region as a force to reckon with keeping our
tactical interests on the fore especially in the energy sector. Today
we are keeping Saudi interests ahead of ours, who everyone knows is
conspiring with Pakistan and never in our favor. It is time we shun
cheap appeasement diplomacy and make a stand of our own in our
nation’s best interests.

We should give all out political and military
support to Shia countries especially Iran with Russia as our
strategic ally and fructify this strategic alliance into a long-term
energy and commerce led profitable future for our nation. As a result
Silk route would be ours to control and revive, right from the
Mediterranean Sea to Thailand.

We will have a major role to play in
the regions politics and take stand in safeguarding our nation’s
interests especially with cheaper access to the oil rich nation’s
bountiful markets and profitable trade ties with Central Asian
countries through Iraq. We can develop Iraq as the world’s biggest
port and an envious commerce hub in the region making us all rich in
the process. This would also give a much needed impetus to our local
manufacturing Industry which lies is in shambles today vis-a-vis
China’s.

Today under Prime Minister Narendra Modi the country can take
quick and strong decisions in this regard. Today need of the hour is
to use this Iraq situation into a strategic gain for us by entering
it and taking full control of it as peace keepers and not as Taliban
led invaders. We should send our New Aircraft Carrier fleet to Iraq
and make Iran an ally to take over Iraq or free it from future
Taliban control.

Iraq and its surrounding areas should have our
strong military presence felt to keep things in control. This would
also be a win win situation for us militarily as our armed forces
will at last see real action in the region and get honed in the
process as very few generals with real wartime experience are left in
our armed forces cadres.

Today Iraq is facing the heat of marauders,
conquerors and invading mercenaries of all sorts and mostly of
foreign origin supported mostly by foreign vested interests
especially the ISIS. The fight is for its strategic control and its
rich oil reserves. Today the fight is reprehensibly between Shia and
Sunni’s and of course total control of the region, which the Saudi
world does not want to fall into Iranian or Shia hands.

Let us look deeper in detail in this mysterious
world full of religious turmoil and hegemony to reform our foreign
strategy. The majority of people in the Arab World adhere to Islam
while others are secular. The majority of the Arab countries adhere
to Sunni Islam. However, Iraq and Iran are exceptions with many
countries like Lebanon, Yemen, Kuwait, and Bahrain have large Shia
minorities. Saudi Arabia has only two provinces having Shia minority
and those are the eastern province Al-Hasa region and the southern
provincial city of Najran. Ibadi Islam is practiced in Oman and
Ibadis make up 75% population of the country.

The Arab world’s seeks to encompass the other
Muslim countries in Europe and Asia hence carving out an independent
kingdom. Whoever is the most powerful would rule the roost. This
story is about the power struggle to successfully rule the Muslim
world with other countries falling head and heels over each other to
gain a threshold in the regions decisive politics. The main reason
for the Iraqi invasion in 2003 by the US and its allies was support
to the Saudi dream of ruling the entire Muslim world as supreme
leader.

The Russian, NATO, SEATO, CENTO and China led
organizations are vying for control of the winner, which decidedly
would be Saudi Arabia. The Entire Arab World does not know one thing
that they would always be ruled and never rule as very soon in this
21st century they would be divided in to three parts. The
Americans will control Saudi Arabia and its allies, the Russians will
control central Asian region with Iran and Iraq and the Chinese to
control Pakistan, Afghanistan and Baluchistan. Egypt will control the
North African regions and would display an independent non-aligned
policy.

Sadly, India would completely be left out as a loser
if we do not change our current sordid diplomacy and foreign policy. We should be at the centre of things taking place in the
region, keeping our nation’s strategic and economic interests on
the forefront like China. It is time we flex our muscles and show the
world that we matter, by entering Iraq as peacekeepers and not
invaders, keeping our political and economic needs in the fore.

Editorial NOTE: This article is categorized under
Opinion Section. The views expressed in this article are solely
those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of
merinews.com. In case you have a opposing view, please click
here to share the same in the comments section.